Need extra cash? Melt down your old unwanted humans we pay top dollar
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3 min readJan 29, 2024
Futurama used to be my favouriate cartoon, and it gave a vision of a future world of robots where the AI had little regard for the intelligence of their human companions. The star — of course — is Bender, and who is a wise-cracking and surly robot and was created from the amazing mind of Matt Groening. Overall, Mat has a great passion for creating ciphers and puzzles in his work. He even presented his own cipher — an alien language (Alien Language 1; AL1):
It is first seen as a cipher in the episode, “Leela’s Homeworld”:
The mapping for this is:
And, so if we read the first letter of the message, we get “n”, and then two “e’ letters. If we continue we get: “need extra cash? melt down your old unwanted humans we pay top dollar” [here]:
